Test Your San Francisco Giants Knowledge II

B. Ryan Vogelsong made his major league debut for the Giants in 2000. He was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2001 as part of the deal that brought pitcher Jason Schmidt to San Francisco. After a long odyssey that included three seasons in Japan, Vogelsong returned to the Giants in 2011.

B. Cody Ross took NLCS MVP honors after batting .350 with three homers and five RBIs as the Giants beat the Phillies in six games. He got things started by hitting two home runs off Phillies ace Roy Halladay in the Giants’ 4-3 win in Game 1. Ross finished the series with a 1.385 OPS. Wilson deserved strong consideration after saving three games and throwing five scoreless innings with two hits allowed, no walks and seven strikeouts.

B. Edgar Renteria was named Series MVP after the Giants beat the Texas Rangers in five games. The shortstop hit .412 with two home runs, including the decisive three-run homer off Cliff Lee in Game 5.

C. AT&T Park, then called Pacific Bell Park, opened at the beginning of the 2000 season.

C. Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001, breaking the mark of 70 set by Mark McGwire three years earlier.

The 1993 Giants finished 103-59 but lost the National League West to the Atlanta Braves by one game. (The wild card was not added until a year later.) The ’93 Giants’ record remains the best by any nonplayoff qualifier since 1954.

B. Jeff Kent was named the league’s MVP in 2000. Kevin Mitchell won the award in 1989, with his teammate Will Clark finishing second in the voting.

B. Tim Lincecum went 18-5 in 2008 in winning the first of two consecutive National League Cy Young Awards. He led the league in strikeouts with 265 and winning percentage at .783.

A. Despite San Francisco’s seven-game loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1987 NLCS, Giants outfielder Jeffrey Leonard was named series MVP. He batted .417 in the series and homered in each of the first four games.

B. Jim Ray Hart hit 31 home runs as a rookie in 1964. Will Clark only hit 11 in 111 games, because of injury. Posey hit 18 in his rookie season of 2010

C. Willie McCovey played 2,256 games for the Giants during the San Francisco era. Willie Mays is second with 2,095 and Barry Bonds third with 1,976.

C. John Burkett was 22-7 with a 3.65 ERA and tied the Atlanta Braves’ Tom Glavine for the National League lead in victories. (Jack McDowell of the Chicago White Sox had 22 wins to lead the American League.) Billy Swift was 21-8 with a 2.82 ERA for a team that won 103 games but missed the playoffs. It was the first 20-win season for both, and neither came close to winning 20 again.

B. Dave Dravecky beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 on August 10, 1989, at Candlestick Park. In his next start, five days later in Montreal, the humerus bone in his left arm snapped as he delivered a pitch, and he would never pitch again. The cancer returned, requiring amputation of Dravecky’s left arm in 1991.

Ed Halicki no-hit the New York Mets at Candlestick on Aug. 24, 1975, in the second game of a doubleheader. John Montefusco pitched a no-hitter the next season in Atlanta and Jonathan Sanchez in 2009 at AT&T Park.

A. Ruben Gomez pitched a six-hitter to beat the Dodgers 8-0 on April 15, 1958, at Seals Stadium. Daryl Spencer and Orlando Cepeda, playing his first major-league game, hit home runs.